Adrian Streete

Apocalypse and Anti-Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century English Drama

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Produktbeschreibung

This book studies the varied political uses of apocalyptic and anti-Catholic rhetoric in a wide range of seventeenth-century English drama.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781108416146
• ISBN-10: 1108416144
• Artikelnr.: 47867831

Autorenporträt

Adrian Streete is Senior Lecturer in English Literature, 1500-1780 at the University of Glasgow. He works on early modern literature and religious culture, and was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to write Apocalypse and Anti-Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century English Drama. He is author of Protestantism and Drama in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2009), editor of Early Modern Drama and the Bible: Contexts and Readings, 1570-1625 (2012), co-editor of three other books, and author of numerous articles.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Anti-Christ and the whore in early modern England - cultures of interpretation
2. 'What news from Babylon?' Marston's The Dutch Courtesan (1605) and the Spanish peace
3. 'Mere idolatry'? Resistance and Rome in Middleton's The Lady's Tragedy (1610)
4. 'Occultus Rex': Caroline politics and imperial kingship in Massinger's Believe as You List (1631)
5. 'Purple Pride' - war, episcopacy, and Shirley's The Cardinal (1641)
6. 'Rebellion Orthodox' - arbitrary rule and liberty in Dryden and Lee's The Duke of Guise (1682)
Conclusion.